M. Ram Murty | PIMS - Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences

Queen's University

M. Ram Murty is a professor of mathematics and Queen's Research Chair in Mathematics at Queens University in Ontario. His research interests include number theory, areas of modular forms, elliptic curves, and sieve theory.

Prof. Murty won the CRM-Fields PIMS Prize in 2024.

We will give an exposition on the recent progress in the study of unimodal sequences, beginning with the work of Isaac Newton and then to the contemporary papers of June Huh. We will also relate this topic to the Riemann hypothesis. In the process...

In this talk, we will highlight the importance of measurement, and discuss what can and cannot be measured. Focusing on the measurement of position, importance, and shape, we will illustrate by discussing the mathematics behind GPS, Google and laser...

A number $n$ is called squarefull if for every prime $p$ dividing $n$, we have $p^2$ also dividing $n$. Erdos conjectured that the number of pairs of consecutive squarefull numbers $(n, n+1)$ with $n N$ is at most $(log N)^A$ for some $A >0$. This...

We will discuss recent progress towards the twin prime conjecture as well as highlight some recent joint work with Akshaa Vatwani the connects the parity problem with the twin prime conjecture. The talk will be accessible to a wide audience.

It is a famous unsolved problem whether there are infinitely many primes $p$ such that $p+2$ is also prime. Such primes are called twin primes. Recently, some spectacular progress was made towards this conjecture by Yitang Zhang, Maynard and Tao...